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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

I thought that I would also investigate how the Government thought they would have a technical measure. The first of the amendments is about limiting the speed. Obviously they are trying to limit it to something that will stop or inhibit the downloading of music. But music files are not very big, so whatever you do will inhibit the use of the internet as a whole. You might as well cut them off. I am not quite sure about the purpose of this technical measure. It will not achieve very much except to make people very cross—and very cross with their ISPs and the Government. It may be that the Government are trying to leave a poison pill for a future Government, perhaps run by a different party, so that they fall foul of all this in about two years’ time. I should be interested to know the purpose of this technical measure.